DC:
Two Iranians were charged with hacking into a Vermont-based software company whose software is designated as a “defense article” by the United States, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday.
Mohammed Reza Rezakhah and Mohammed Saeed Ajily were charged with conspiracy related to computer fraud and abuse; unauthorized access to and theft of information from computers; wire fraud and exporting a defense article without a license. They were also charged with violating sanctions against Iran, according to a DOJ statement. read more
“…exporting a defense article without a license.”
The line at Defense Article Licensing was too long.
Good luck getting the two guys. OK I’m getting carried away here.
See the Indian Times, there’s more to the story. The two guys charged are probably in Iran.
The third guy who admitted his guilt:
“One month later he was freed as part of a prisoner exchange with Tehran, which returned four Americans in exchange for seven Iranians who had been arrested in separate schemes to obtain and smuggle to Iran sensitive US technologies.”
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/two-iranians-charged-in-us-over-hacking-defence-materials/articleshow/59643219.cms
Look at the 7 traded
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/7-iranians-freed-in-us-prisoner-swap/
CNN reports the money dump
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-iran-400-million-cash/index.html
The Obama administration secretly arranged a plane delivery of $400 million in cash on the same day Iran released four American prisoners and formally implemented the nuclear deal, US officials confirmed Wednesday.
The money was flown into Iran on wooden pallets stacked with Swiss francs, euros and other currencies as the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement resolving claims at an international tribunal at The Hague over a failed arms deal under the time of the Shah….
Let me guess, they’re democrat party contractors.